Pocket size cigar holders



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INVENTOR LORAN O. BUXTON United States Patent 3,025,951 POCKET SIZE CHGAR HOLDERS Loran Old Buxton, 1 Parsonage Hill Road, Livingston, NJ. Filed Sept. 28, 1959, Ser. No. 842,899 3 Claims. (Cl. 206-41) This invention relates to novel cigar holders and more particularly to novel pocket size cigar holders.

As is well known cigars are sold in many type stores in boxes containing 5, 10, 25, 50, or 60 cigars each. However, when the average customer buys cigars he purchases from 1 to loose cigars from a box of bulk cigars. The purchaser then puts the loose cigars in one of his pockets, usually his shirt pocket. This procedu're is not too satisfactory since the loose cigars will fall over in the pocket and often times become damaged. Furthermore, more important, should the individual having the loose cigars in his pocket bend over for one reason or another, the loose cigars will invariably fall from the pocket. When the latter happens, the cigars are often times lost, damaged, or they may fall into something in which their presence is undesirable. It is a fact that many purchaser of cigars will buy only 1 to 3 loose cigars at a time because they know that they Willhave trouble keeping the cigars from getting damaged in their pockets or they will lose the cigars from their pockets. In the instance when a customer buys a pocket size box containing usually 5 cigars, this box will also fall from a mans pocket should he for one reason or another bend over.

The general object of the invention is to obviate the foregoing and other disadvantages.

A specific object of the invention is to provide novel pocket size cigar holders.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel pocket size cigar holders which will fit into mens shirt pockets and which will prevent cigars from falling therefrom.

Other objects of the invention will in part appear obvious and will in part appear hereinafter.

For a fuller understanding of the objects, advantages and features of the invention, reference should be had to the following detailed description taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, in which:

All of the products shown in the figures are drawn to actual size and reference characters designate corresponding parts in the several views.

FIGS. 2 and 4 show a diagrammatic front view of two types of novelpocket size cigar holders of the invention. FIG. 1 shows a top view and FIGS. 3 and 5 show side views of the same said products.

FIGS. 7 and 10 show a diagrammatic front view of two other similar type novel pocket size cigar holders of the invention. FIGS. 6 and 9 show top views and FIGS. 8 and 11 show side views of the same said products.

The four different types of novel pocket size cigar holders shown from three different views in the figures are all flexible, attractive, inexpensive, long lasting, and highly eflicient for holding cigars in place in mens pockets. All the products as shown are drawn to actual size and are equipped with pocket clips 12. The chps 12 may be metal, or plastic, or plastic or leather covered metal as desired. Member 15 of FIGS. 1, 2 and 4 are knobs which help to hold the cigars in position. Cigars can be readily taken from the holders without the need of removing the novel holders from the pocket in which they are in and without fear of damaging the cigars. In FIGS. 2, 4, and 7 the novel products are all plastic. Members 16 of FIGS. 6, 7 and 8 are flexible expansion semi-discs. It is preferred to use a tough, flexible, unbreakable plastic such as a polyethylene type ice however, a more rigid type such as Lucite or the like may be employed. In FIGS. 9, l0 and 11 member 13 is a round elastic cord or string. Back portion 14 is a heavy flexible cardboard, and the partitions or ribs 17 are wood and are glued to member 14. The clip 12 is metal. The elastic string 13 is very eflicient for holding cigars in place and preventing them from falling out of a mans pocket should he bend over for one reason or another. The product of FIGS. 9, 10 and 11 is very etfective for holding in position all different size regular cigars.

The products of this invention as shown in the figures will accommodate or hold in position any particular style of regular size cigars such as blunts, specials, imperials panatellas, perfectos, double perfectos, senators, lancers, kings, crooks, coronas, crowns invincibles, larks, queens, golden weddings, presidents, nelsons, king size, and such like styles. All the products shown in the figures have 5 separate means or partitions for holding 5 cigars, however, it is to be understood that according to the invention similar type products possessing fewer means or partitions or even more than 5 means or partitions can be made. Miniature models of the products of the figures can be made for small cigars, if desired.

Although it is preferred to use a flexible, unbreakable polyethylene type plastic according to the invention, other materials may be employed. Other types of plastic such as Lucite, nylon, vinyl, Bakelite, urethane types, and the like may be used. Other materials such as semi-hard rubber, cardboard, pressed board, metal, aluminum, Wood, as well as other similar materials or combinations of two or more of the materials may be employed, especially for preparing the back portion 14 of the novel products of the invention.

From the foregoing general discussion, specific drawings and detailed examples, it will be apparent that this invention provides novel pocket size cigar holders which eliminate cigars from falling therefrom.

What is believed to be specifically novel and is desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. A pocket cigar holder comprising a thin normally flat back portion of flexible inherently resilient material, a lateral row of pairs of partitions located between the top and bottom of of the back portion and extending forward from the latter to a distance greater than half the thickness of a cigar, each adjoining pair of said partitions being spaced apart laterally at a distance substantially equal to the thickness of a cigar, said back portion being of equal thickness throughout the plane thereof and being devoid of any vertically bent horizontal edges and flanges which would stiffen said portion and prevent lateral flexing, and retaining members extending laterally toward each other from the partitions of each pair into the space therebetween and being separated by a distance less than the thickness of a cigar. t it 2. A pocket cigar holder as defined in claim 1, wherein the retaining members are rounded knobs.

3. A pocket cigar holder as defined in claim 1, wherein the retaining members are inwardly curved edges of the partitions.

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